Blizzard Watches in Montana
12 blizzard watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 12
- Busiest year
- 20094 blizzard watches
- Average year
- 2over 7 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Phillips County3
- Wibaux County3
- Daniels County2
- Dawson County2
- Garfield County2
- McCone County2
- Petroleum County2
- Prairie County2
- Roosevelt County2
- Sheridan County2
- Valley County2
- Carter County2
- Fallon County2
- Powder River County2
- Rosebud County2
- Park County2
- Stillwater County2
- Sweet Grass County2
- Flathead County2
- Lake County2
- Sanders County2
- Richland County1
- Big Horn County1
- Custer County1
- Granite County1
- Missoula County1
- Powell County1
- Ravalli County1
- Golden Valley County1
- Wheatland County1
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.